"of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist, rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: ""Brighton Rock"", ""The Power and the Glory"", ""The Heart of the Matter"", and ""The End of the Affair""; which have been named ""the gold standard"" of the Catholic novel. Several works, such as ""The Confidential Agent"", ""The Quiet American"", ""Our Man in Havana"", ""The Human Factor"", and his screenplay for ""The"
"his German handlers disinformation, by pretending to control a ring of agents all over England. In fact, he invented armed forces movements and operations from maps, guides and standard military references. Garbo was the main inspiration for Wormold, the protagonist of ""Our Man In Havana"". Remembering the German agents in Portugal, Greene wrote the first version of the story in 1946, as an outline for a film script, with the story set in Estonia in 1938. The film was never made, and Greene soon realised that Havana, which he had visited several times in the early 1950s, would be a"
"cross], a procession that started at the old St Francis church and proceeded to el Santo Cristo through Calle Amargura. The church and its Plaza have received penitents in need of spiritual rest and comfort for centuries. The Plaza Del Cristo was used for the setting in the 1959 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel Our Man in Havana published the previous year right before the Cuban Revolution. Wormold, a protagonist in the film who played a vacuum-cleaner salesman and a secret agent was “swallowed up among the pimps and lottery sellers of the Havana noon.” Wormold and his daughter"
"the novel ranges from Tom’s boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City"
"Wormwood (Taylor novel) Wormwood is a fantasy sequel to Graham Taylor's ""Shadowmancer"". It follows the adventures of the book's two main protagonists, Dr. Sabian Blake and his servant girl, Agetta Lamian. The work is a Christian allegory. The work, like its predecessor, was criticised for attacking other religions. Taylor professed that this work was against the kabbalah, which he sees as a practice that leads to Satan. The story takes place in London, where Dr. Sabian Blake is sitting in his attic at the top of his house in Bloomsbury Square, looking out to space through his telescope, in search"
"went to bingo. Matilda was left alone. That was how she liked it. Mr. Wormwood was based on a real-life character from Roald Dahl's home village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The library in Great Missenden was the inspiration for Mrs Phelps' library, where Matilda devours classic literature by the age of four and three months. The novel was made into the film ""Matilda"" in 1996. It starred Mara Wilson as Matilda, and was directed by Danny DeVito, who also portrayed Mr. Wormwood and narrated the story. Although the film was not a box office success, it received critical acclaim"
"West Norwood Cemetery. Four of his plays were successfully produced on the London stage, the popular farce, ""Cool as a Cucumber"" (Lyceum 1851), being the best known. His French experiences resulted in a number of books, most important of which is his ""Life of Napoleon III"" (1874). On his death, he was occupied in writing the biography of Gustave Doré, who had illustrated several of his books. Among his books are: William Blanchard Jerrold William Blanchard Jerrold (London 23 December 1826 – 10 March 1884), was an English journalist and author. He was born in London, the eldest son of"
"send to London, Wormold fabricates his reports using information found in newspapers and invents a fictitious network of agents. Some of the names in his network are those of real people (most of whom he has never met), but some are made up. Wormold tells only his friend and World War I veteran, Dr. Hasselbacher, about his spy work, hiding the truth from Milly. At one point, he decides to make his reports ""exciting"" by sending to London sketches of what he describes as a secret military installation in the mountains, actually vacuum cleaner parts scaled to a large size."
"Merril's """" (Gnome Press, 1958), and ""The Yellow Pill"" (""Astounding"", October 1958) that can be found reprinted in Judith Merril's """" (Gnome Press, 1959). Yet, it seems that these stories have been eclipsed by his psychological thriller the lesser known but equally brilliant ""Rat in the Skull"" (""If"", December 1958), which received a well deserved Hugo Award nomination. At the end of his career, Graham was just beginning to receive the recognition his body of work so richly deserved. As only a true romantic such as Graham could truly appreciate he had his swan song shortly before his too-short career"
"William S. Baring-Gould William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913–10 Aug 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, ""Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective"". He married Lucile ""Ceil"" Marguerite Moody in 1937. He was creative director of ""Time"" magazine's circulation and corporate education departments from 1937 until his death. His paternal grandfather was the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. In 1955, Baring-Gould privately published ""The Chronological Holmes"", an attempt to lay out, in chronological order, all the events alluded to in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Three years"
"Sudden James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by an English author Oliver Strange in the early 1930s as the hero of a series, originally published by George Newnes Books Ltd, set in the American Wild West era. Oliver Strange died in 1952, and the series was revived by Frederick H. Christian in the 1960s. Christian classified the books as ""Piccadilly westerns"", that is books written by English authors, simply drawing on the conventions the genre, with no first hand experience of America. The Sudden books are among the earliest and best-loved of the type. Sudden is portrayed"
"James Anderson (author) James Anderson (1936–2007) was a British author. He is best known for his books featuring Inspector Wilkins. Set in the 1930s, the action of the books takes place in a large fictional British estate, or stately home, belonging to George Henry Aylvin Saunders, the 12th Earl of Burford. The books are a humorous look at the Golden Age type of mystery, which feature whodunnits set during a house party, and contain joking references to Inspector Appleby, the detective created by Michael Innes, or Inspector Alleyn, created by Ngaio Marsh, and to the well-known private detective Hercule Poirot,"
"dystopian fiction entitled ""Dangerous Visions"". J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as ""The Wind from Nowhere"" (1961) and ""The Drowned World"" (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or ""condensed novels""), such as those collected in the controversial ""The Atrocity Exhibition"" (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial ""Crash"" (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash"
"a car in a game of poker. James Green (author) James ""Jim"" Green (born 3 December 1944 in Coventry, is a British writer and broadcaster who turned to writing as a full-time profession after a 25-year career in teaching. He has had over 40 titles published in various genres, from educational text books to travel guides to crime novels. His first foray into crime novels was called ""Bad Catholics"" (2010 Luath), the first part of a trilogy chronicling the exploits of reformed gangster Jimmy Costello. James has since moved to Accent Press to write a five book series on the"
"March 1857. They were sentenced to transportation for 14 years and sent to Australia. In his play, ""Jim the Penman"" (1886), British baronet, barrister and playwright Sir Charles Young, 7th Baronet expanded the scope of the fictional version of Saward, making him a leader of an international forgery ring who forged letters to marry into high society. The play was later adapted into two films, in 1915 with John B. Mason, and in 1921 with Lionel Barrymore playing Saward. Saward is often regarded as an inspiration for the character Professor Moriarty in Arthur Conan Doyle's ""Sherlock Holmes"" series. James Townsend"
"James Green (author) James ""Jim"" Green (born 3 December 1944 in Coventry, is a British writer and broadcaster who turned to writing as a full-time profession after a 25-year career in teaching. He has had over 40 titles published in various genres, from educational text books to travel guides to crime novels. His first foray into crime novels was called ""Bad Catholics"" (2010 Luath), the first part of a trilogy chronicling the exploits of reformed gangster Jimmy Costello. James has since moved to Accent Press to write a five book series on the development of the US intelligence service Green"
"John Boland (author) Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author. Boland was born in Birmingham, but later lived in East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest with his wife, Philippa. His most well known book was ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1958) which was released as a film. However, characters' names and the ending were changed. He wrote two sequels: They continued with the characterisations developed in the film. His first novel ""White August"" (1955) was a science fiction weather control disaster story. His second, ""No Refuge"" (1956) begins"
"J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as ""The Wind from Nowhere"" (1961) and ""The Drowned World"" (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or ""condensed novels""), such as those collected in the controversial ""The Atrocity Exhibition"" (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial ""Crash"" (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and ""High-Rise"" (1975), a"
"way to betray his father is to hurt himself, Andrews tells Carlyon to leave and that he will take the blame for Elizabeth's death. In 1947, a film version, ""The Man Within"", was made of the novel (called ""The Smugglers"" in the United States) starring Ronald Shiner, Michael Redgrave as Carlyon and Richard Attenborough as Andrews. The Man Within The Man Within (1929) is the first novel by author Graham Greene. It tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler, who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal. It is Greene's first published novel. (Two earlier attempts"
"times of America's largest private detective"", a fictional biography of Rex Stout's detective character Nero Wolfe. In this book, Baring-Gould popularised the theory that Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. William S. Baring-Gould William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913–10 Aug 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, ""Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective"". He married Lucile ""Ceil"" Marguerite Moody in 1937. He was creative director of ""Time"" magazine's circulation and corporate education departments from 1937 until his death. His paternal"
"invented by Agatha Christie. Anderson also wrote novelizations based on the television series ""Murder, She Wrote"". Inspector Wilkins books Novelizations based on ""Murder, She Wrote"" Mikael Petros books Other works James Anderson (author) James Anderson (1936–2007) was a British author. He is best known for his books featuring Inspector Wilkins. Set in the 1930s, the action of the books takes place in a large fictional British estate, or stately home, belonging to George Henry Aylvin Saunders, the 12th Earl of Burford. The books are a humorous look at the Golden Age type of mystery, which feature whodunnits set during a"
"in everyday relations. The novel is set in and around The Green Man, an inn between London and Cambridge owned by Maurice Allington, a 53-year-old man with a second wife, a teenage daughter and an 80-year-old father living with him in the inn's upstairs apartment. The inn and its name date back to the 14th century, and the inn's charm is further embellished by a history of haunting related to a 17th-century owner, Thomas Underhill, a Cambridge scholar who dabbled in the occult. Underhill was associated with two unsolved murders, including that of his wife, which could not be traced"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"school in Southampton. Because of her family connections, Willard originally went on the stage as an actress and also worked as a playreader, but she was unsuccessful and abandoned acting in her early twenties. She wrote numerous books for adults before she turned to children's literature. Very little about the author was written during her lifetime, because of her private nature. She died at a nursing home in Wivelsfield Green, East Sussex, on 18 February 1994. ""The Grove of Green Holly"" (1967), which was a story about a group of 17th century traveling players who were hiding in a forest"
"and witticisms are two edited by his grandson, Walter Jerrold, ""Bons Mots of Charles Dickens and Douglas Jerrold"" (new edn 1904), and ""The Essays of Douglas Jerrold"" (1903), illustrated by H. M. Brock. See also ""The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold"" (1858), edited by W. B. Jerrold. Douglas Jerrold was the great-grandfather of Audrey Mayhew Allen (b. 1870), author of a number of children's stories published in various periodicals, and of a book ""Gladys in Grammarland"", an imitation of Lewis Carroll's ""Wonderland"" books. Douglas William Jerrold Douglas William Jerrold (London 3 January 18038 June 1857 London) was an English"
"Wormwood (miniseries) Wormwood is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who may have unknowingly participated in a secret government biological warfare program (Project MKUltra). Wormwood is told through Eric Olson, the son of Frank Olson, an American biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953. Nine days after Olson was covertly dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor as part of Project MKUltra, he plunged to his death"
"Headlong (Williams novel) Headlong is a 1980 alternate history novel by Emlyn Williams. The story takes place in the United Kingdom in the mid-1930s. During the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in May 1935, the entire British Royal Family is killed in a freak accident after the explosion of a large dirigible (similar to the ""Hindenburg"" disaster), and the search is on to find a surviving heir of British blood. After an extensive search, the choice falls on Jack Green, a 24-year-old stage actor who, unbeknownst to him, is the grandson of the philandering Prince Albert"
"prize is a sculpture of a demon. Graham Masterton Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946 in Edinburgh) is a British horror author. Originally editor of ""Mayfair"" and the British edition of ""Penthouse"", Graham Masterton's first novel ""The Manitou"" was released in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film ""The Manitou"". Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for ""Charnel House"" and a Silver Medal by the West Coast Review of Books for ""Mirror"". He is also the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his"
"building a three-story building. Single handedly. Jeffery Renard Allen scores highly with this novel about the life of the nineteenth century savant, BlindTom."" - Ishmael Reed Song of the Shank The publisher described the novel as following: At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from"
"he never attempted a sequel. The book is still widely enjoyed by adults and children today, also in films, while Toad remains one of the most celebrated and beloved characters. In 1929, A. A. Milne wrote the play ""Toad of Toad Hall"", which is based on part of ""The Wind in the Willows. The Wind in the Willows"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. In the 1990s, William Horwood produced with a series of sequels. Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for ""The Wind in"
"The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as"
"and Jimmy at J. Smith's, he follows the two to Wormwood's office, where he is killed when Danny launches him out of a window. The mini-series has been collected in one volume: A one-shot has also been released: A second mini series has been collected in one volume: Chronicles of Wormwood Chronicles of Wormwood is a six-part comic book limited series written by Garth Ennis, drawn by Jacen Burrows, and colored by Andrew Dalhouse. Avatar Press is publishing the title. ""Chronicles of Wormwood"" is the story of Danny Wormwood, a benevolent Antichrist, with his best friend being a reincarnated Jesus"